South Carolina Cooperatives

In South Carolina we also have information from all of the twenty-one (2) cooperatives. Of the two-hundred thirty-three (233) board members, twenty-six (26) are African-American for 11.2% of the total while 88.7% are white. Racially, 68.3% of South Carolina’s people statewide are white, 27.8% are black, and 5.4% are Hispanic. 48.6% of South Carolina’s people are men and 51.4% are women, while the cooperative elected membership is 89.3% men, and 10.7% women.